I frequently get emails containing links to file shares on various servers. Most people just grab the path from windows explorer and paste it into the email which is a shame, because it ends up auto-linking only the first part of the path. For example, “\\server\share with space in the name” auto-links “\\server\share” only.

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If you blog, and haven’t checked out FeedBurner yet, you should. Not only can it offload the majority of the bandwidth from a busy blog (not mine), but the stats it collects are impressive. They do a lot of work to display meaningful and correct stats, and even with that effort it’s always “approximate” [...]

Maybe it’s “the grass is always greener” syndrome, but the idea of starting a Micro ISV has always been attractive to me. I suspect it comes from the following (flawed) thought process:
1. I can create software.2. I can create good software. (My mom says so, anyway.)3. Problems exist that software can solve.4. I can become [...]

Jeff Atwood wrote a post on passing the “Elevator Test”. He says,
Software developers think their job is writing code. But it’s not.* Their job is to solve the customer’s problem. Sure, our preferred medium for solving problems is software, and that does involve writing code. But let’s keep this squarely in context: writing code is [...]

So far I’ve had one call from my blog via Grand Central, but I accidentally sent them to voicemail instead of answering–I was talking with some folk at work, so I was a little distracted–sorry “Robert”, whoever you are! I also got a Skype call today, that ended up being a mis-click. A subconscious comment [...]

I saw this thing called inviteshare.com today (via Mike), which is apparently the way to get invited to the hottest and latest Web-2.0-social-networking-mashup-who-even-has-the-time sites. I was struck by just how many sites there are with ridiculous names who will connect you to your BFF, cure cancer, clothe the poor, and apparently they do all that [...]

I just can’t pass up a free t-shirt, even when “free” is relative. It didn’t cost me any money–that’s free in my book. I’ve been known to head to Kohl’s and stock up on $3 t-shirts around the 4th of July.
So, here’s to Eric Sink for giving me a cheap-as-free shirt, thanks!

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A few years ago, I was very excited for the release of the Motorola MPx220. I thought it was going to be the coolest thing since sliced bread, and on one level, it was. But it came bundled with so many issues, I think I’ve been tainted towards “smartphones”–phones that do it all. [...]

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